Volcae

The Volcae ( German Volker or Volken called, called by the Germans Welsche ) were a Celtic people of ancient times. The Volcae had their original heartland between the Rhine, Main and leash and in the Thuringian Forest. The advancing Germans displaced and assimilated the Volcae around 500 BC repressed Volcae settled in Aquitaine and assimilated the autochthonous Iberian and Ligurian tribes; they were a major Gallic people.

The Germans referred to all Celts under the strain of Volcae as * walhoz (see Welsch ). Caesar then used it to distinguish it from the Gauls. Behind this use was Caesar's intention to say, all the Gauls defeated to have. According to Caesar, they settled in herkynischen forest that included Caesar's time the Black Forest to the Thuringian Forest, Ore Mountains and the Bohemian Forest and the Carpathian Mountains. This is regarded as proof that the era of the Celtic culture in Central Europe still had meaning. In the following centuries the Volcae were Romanized and went into the Celto -Roman culture. They are presented as numerous excavated coins called Rainbow Cup.

Differences are:

  • Volcae Tectosages ( tektosagische Volker or Tectosages ); center of Tolosa
  • Volcae Arecomices to Nimes
  • Herkynische Volcae

A controversial hypothesis brings the Volcae with the attempted looting of the Oracle of Delphi and the partial destruction of the temple of Apollo in 279 BC in conjunction. Accordingly, the Volcae part of the three armies, under the Celtic military leader Brennus (not to be confused with Brennus, who sacked Rome 387 BC! ) Macedonia, Illyria and Greece were overran ( senones Elvier = southern Protohelvetier and Gaesaten = Volcae and others). The prey was known in Rome as the gold of Tolosa and stored at the National Shrine, in the holy pond of the treasure of 15,000 talents or 110,000 pounds of silver and 5,000 pounds of gold was sunk.

The Tectosages came 278 BC as a mercenary to Asia Minor and settled in the area of present-day Ankara. They called here Galatians. Suspects is also that these were the descendants of the peoples who were 100 years earlier invaded Greece.

Quintus Servilius Caepio who crushed the Volcae coalition in the year 105 BC, actually picked up the treasure, for which punished him according to legend, the gods with a defeat in a battle against the Cimbri.

The Volcae - term was later used as a historical preamble, which also includes Helvetii and Boii.

  • Celtic tribe
Germanic peoples Brennus (3rd century BC) Galatia#Celtic Galatia
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